About Us

The Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur is well known for its academic excellence and is often considered as the 'first stop' for a large number of industries and other organizations for recruiting undergraduate and post-graduate students. We truly appreciate the faith bestowed on us from several organizations and we look forward to continuing our relationship with them.

The Students' Placement Office (SPO) is run and managed by an efficient team of office staff & students and handles all aspects of placements at IIT Kanpur. Right from contacting companies to managing all logistics of arranging for tests, pre-placement talks and conducting final interviews the SPO team provides it's best possible assistance to the recruiters. The hospitality and the functioning of SPO is applauded and well received by the visiting recruiters every year.

From the Director's Desk

Since the advent of this great institution, IIT Kanpur has vision to provide quality technical
education and act as a rostrum for scientific research, and a mission to develop human
potential to its greatest degree. In accordance with this vision IIT Kanpur has maintained an
exemplary record of academic contribution for achieving excellence in teaching, research
and governance. A sincere effort has now begun to restore the vantage position of IITK as
the top technological Institute in India, The students of IITK are a cherry picked group.
They have been chosen through a process that makes IITK one of the toughest institutes to
get an admission.

IITK owes a lot to its alumni for all its international reputation and national standing. The
students usually come from varied educational and cultural backgrounds

Chairman's Message

As the world marches into the 21st century, India, at the forefront of the developing world needs an increasing lot of intelligent, astute, hard working and technically proficient minds. Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur (IIT K) well known for its cutting edge research and teaching programmes prides itself on creating an environment that facilitates in not only the academic but the overall development of the student.

The hall mark of IIT K has always been relentless strive towards excellence and perfection.